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Synopsis
Unlock the roots of Mexico City’s churchrooms and cathedrals, and discover who truly built the first house of worship in the new capital.
This book surveys the early religious landscape after the conquest, tracing where and how the first church and cathedral may have arisen, and weighing competing claims about Franciscan priority and Cortés’s role.
The discussion covers the establishment of the parish church and its possible sites, the rise of the cathedral, and the later rebuilding efforts that culminated in the grand structure standing today. It also explains how the church system was organized across the growing diocese, including the move to create bishoprics and how these decisions shaped religious life in New Spain.- How the first church and the provisional cathedral may have been laid out on or near Aztec sacred ground
- The debate over which order built first and where the church stood
- The sequence of construction from provisional chapels to the major cathedral
- How royal decrees and viceroyal decisions restructured church leadership and regional sees
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